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A Member of the ESPN SweetSpot NetworkSat, 02 Dec 2017 12:11:00 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.4By: Seattle Stuhttp://itspronouncedlajaway.com/2013/10/14/is-there-any-hope-for-chris-perez/#comment-29962
Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:18:17 +0000http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=11642#comment-29962dump him, i trust the eye test – he’s awful, and a dbag to boot….to say nothing of the economic mandate to move him….next.
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Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:10:11 +0000http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=11642#comment-29956Although his numbers seem to be a fluke, we should not be paying him more than he is currently being paid, he wasn’t even worth $7 Million this year. It doesn’t make sense. The numbers look promising, but off the field, he was a hot mess. There was the marijuana incident and he boycotted the media for about 2 months after he blew a save, making his teammates cover for him after he blew a save. He doesn’t make any sense for the Indians.
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Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:57:00 +0000http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=11642#comment-29949No way will the Indians pay Perez the nine million or so he would get in arbitration.

If he agrees to a two year deal for 6 million total he’ll be back and I’ll be dancing as the lead ballerina in the Bolshoi when it comes to town.I don’t think he wants to play here anymore for any amount.

Simply put they need to put that money elsewhere,especially considering the number of good young arms they have stacking up at AAA.

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Mon, 14 Oct 2013 22:18:48 +0000http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=11642#comment-29946There’s no way this team, in this market, could justify paying Chris Perez of all people that much money.

For everyone involved, its best that Perez goes somewhere else. I don’t hate the guy, because I too think the Indians attendance is a joke, and find it laughable that weed is still illegal and while he struggled, I never doubted that he didn’t care or wasn’t trying.

But he needs to go away.

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Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:10:25 +0000http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=11642#comment-299258 of his HRs were solo shots
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Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:09:50 +0000http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=11642#comment-29924Keep him,he helped us get too the post season.Perez had some ruff spots but who didn’t?
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Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:59:49 +0000http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=11642#comment-29914I agree it makes no sense to bring Perez back for us based on the performance we’ve been getting and the money it will take. I agree this season has been a statistically anomally for him. But of those 10 homeruns he gave up, how many actually were with men on base? Quite a few I can guess. Or I can remember one instance in which he gave up multiple solo bombs in the same game. I dont have the ability or know how to verify this, just going off memory. But, a closer simply cant do that. Whether its an off year or not. I hope for his sake it was an off year and he bounces back. But as far as his time with the Tribe goes, Id rather use the resources elsewhere.
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Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:12:09 +0000http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=11642#comment-29912i personally loathe perez and believe his peripheral stats suggest he’s not a very good pitcher, but regardless of that, it’s been pretty well shown that spending money on a “proven closer” is a gigantic waste of resources. for a smaller market team like cleveland, it makes no sense to pay the man.
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Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:45:32 +0000http://itspronouncedlajaway.com/?p=11642#comment-29902Rarely do “pitch to contact” guys get the closer role. Perez gets called strikes because he pitches to the corners low in the zone and those are pitchers’ pitches. But if he gets the ball up, he is very hittable. He doesn’t have the ability to blow high heat by hitters, so there are few swings and misses on fastballs. His slider is a good out pitch when he’s locating it well, but he struggles with consistency on that pitch, especially when pitching a 2nd or 3rd day in a row. If it was only money or only performance, I would say there’s a chance he comes back. But with the money and performance both working against him, a team with a tight budget will be looking to spend that money elsewhere in 2014. No chance he’s here.
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